It’s Tuesday and…Nate Parsons is our guest! This is part three of our interview with Nate. We have been touching base about once a month to check in on his progress with his experience coaching his first ever JTS Brown team. Nate is a spacecraft software developer and improviser living in San Francisco. He works on the Missions Software team at Planet and performs in the Bay Area at Endgames Improv and All Out Comedy Theater.
It’s Tuesday and…Nate Parsons is our guest! This is part two of our interview with Nate. We have been touching base about once a month to check in on his progress with his experience coaching his first ever JTS Brown team. Unfortunately, this episode only captured Nate’s audio. However, there is still plenty to hear and it’s Nate we want to hear from anyways! Nate is a spacecraft software developer and improviser living in San Francisco. He works on the Missions Software team at Planet and perfo...
It's Tuesday and.... Nate Parsons is our guest! SoundCloud: http://buff.ly/2oX9KMc iTunes: http://buff.ly/2oXiTVa We decided to do something a little different. Nate is very new to coaching and directing improv and we thought it would be helpful and interesting to document his journey. We have recorded a series of conversations where we discuss a variety of topics and we hope you find it helpful and interesting. This is the first episode and was recorded shortly after Nate began coaching his fir...
It's Tuesday and... Órla McGovern is our guest! Órla Mc Govern is an improviser/performer/teacher/writer based in the West of Ireland. She lived and worked in the US for many years (mainly in Seattle), and it was there that her crush with improv turned into a serious relationship. She was a cast member of a number of groups including Seattle goga, Spolin Players, The Seattle Neutrino Project, The Edge, and improvised with more groups including Dead Gentlemen, Jet City Improv, etc. Órla works reg...
It's Tuesday and ... Jose Gonzalez is our guest! Jose Gonzalez has been involved with improv since 2001, has been an associate producer with the Phoenix Improv Festival since its inception, and is a co-founder of The Torch Theatre in where he regularly performs. He's taught and performed at festivals and theatres across North America with a sprinkling of a few cities in the U.K. and Europe. Jose currently has 250+ tabs open on his phone's browser.
It's Tuesday and... Jeff Quintana is our guest!
It's Tuesday and... Bill Arnett is our guest! Bill Arnett has been improvising in Chicago for 16 years, performing with some of the most popular and esteemed groups. As an instructor of improvisation he has traveled internationally always bringing his depth of knowledge and remarkable eye for improv problem solving. The former head of the iO Theater training center, he launched the Chicago Improv Studio as a way to explore the concepts introduced in his book The Complete Improvisor.
It's Tuesday and... Will Luera is our guest! Will is the Director of Improvisation at Florida Studio Theatre, Director of Big Bang Improv and serves as the Artistic Director Emeritus of ImprovBoston, Artistic Director of the Pilsen Improv Festival, Artistic Associate of the Chicago Improv Festival, Artistic Advisor to the Women in Comedy Festival and Part-time Faculty at Boston College. He has appeared in numerous improv festivals around the world and have studied improvisation with ImprovOlympi...
It's Tuesday and .... Amy Lisewski is our guest! Amy has more than 20 years of experience in business and the arts. She graduated from the Second City Conservatory, trained at iO West, became a member of the Applied Improvisation Network and studied with dozens of master improv teachers from around the country. Amy is a Vistage Speaker; a certification she uses to help executives become more adaptive leaders through the principles of improv. As a certified Speechless presenter and facilitator, s...
It's Tuesday and... Joe Bill is our guest! Joe Bill is widely regarded as one of the best teachers of Scenic and Comedic Improvisation in America today. He currently teaches, performs and is the Director of Corporate Training at iO Chicago. He is also on the faculty at The Second City Training Center where he teaches intensives in Duo Improvisation and Improvisation for Actors. He is one of the founding members of Annoyance Theater Chicago where, for 12 years, he performed in and/or directed mor...
It's Tuesday and... Max McCal is our guest! Max McCal has been teaching in San Francisco since 2009, and improvising since 2007. As a founding member of Endgames Improv, he has been teaching classes, and coaching teams ever since. Max is a director of the company, and the primary architect of Endgames' curriculum. He has studied with iO Chicago, UCB NY, and Annoyance theater. You can find Max online at www.twitter.com/radarcowboy
It's Tuesday and... Rob Alesiani is our guest! Rob Alesaini began improvising in 2006 taking classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. Soon after, he choose he chose to become a corporate cog for a while. Fear not, though, because upon throwing off the shackles of corporate life, he returned to the improv world in 2013 when he moved back to his home, Philadelphia. He's been improvising like his life depended upon it since. He was a member of Philly Improv Theater house team Ou...
It's Tuesday and... Dylan Rohde is this week's guest! Dylan is the founder and co-owner of The Backline in Omaha, NE. He is also the producer of The Omaha Improv Festival. He has studied at UCB and iOWest. You can find Dylan and The Backline at www.backlinecomedy.com.
It's Tuesday and Nick Armstrong is our guest! Nick is an Actor, Improvisor and Writer living in Los Angeles, CA. On TV Nick has been on the Emmy-Award winning shows The Office and Grey's Anatomy. He has also made appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, New Girl, Hot in Cleveland, Stan Against Evil and Parks and Recreation. Nick has trained at The Groundlings and iO West. He is an alum of The Sunday Company at the Groundlings and currently performs at the world-famous iO West on LA's Critically Acclaim...
It's Tuesday and... we welcome Pam Victor! Pam Victor is an improv comedian, author, teacher, consultant, and nice person. She is the founder and Head of Happiness of Happier Valley Comedy, the epicenter of improv in Western Mass, where Pam teaches The Zen of Improv to the best students in the world as well as bringing the power of improvisation to the workplace in her "Through Laughter" program. TJ Jagodowski, David Pasquesi, and Pam are the co-authors of "Improvisation at the Speed of Life: Th...
Brian James O’Connell is a working actor, writer, director, filmmaker and teacher in Los Angeles. He currently teaches as part of the Core Faculty at The Pack Theater and at iOWest. Brian is the Creator and Executive Producer of Big Yellow Taxi, the Executive Producer and Founder of Long Hard Tuesdays, the Executive Producer and Founder of The Lady Invitational and Executive Producer of Genre Night! at The Pack Theater. Brian is a graduate of the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts (Da...
It's Tuesday and... Rachel Ben Hamou is our guest! Rachel is a British improviser, trainer, facilitator and agile enthusiast. She has a blast using applied improv techniques to super-charge organizations like Riot Games who want to harness the deep and enduring value of play. She loves to tweet & blog about creativity, collaboration, improv principles and emotional intelligence. https://twitter.com/agileimprov https://www.facebook.com/Agileimprov/ https://medium.com/all-things-improv www.agi...
Today's episode features Jill Eickmann. Jill Eickmann is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Leela, a San Francisco based improvisational theatre company and training center. She has directed over 100 original productions with Leela and serves as a Producer/Board Member for The San Francisco Improv Festival and Executive Producer of Femprovisor Fest: SF’s all female-identified improv fest. She has taught her signature style of improvisation to thousands of improvisors of all ages. Most recen...
Missy Whitis is a two-time cancer survivor, a high school/middle school drama and choir Director for over 15 years. She has studied improv at SAK Comedy Lab in Orlando, FL and with Paul Sills (co-founder/director of Second City). She teaches at University of Cincinnati, and directs theater around the Cincinnati area. For a decade now, she has been traveling the country teaching improv, leadership, and communication. Continuing clients include GE Aviation, Hershey, P&G, Educational Theatre As...
Jill Bernard has been performing with ComedySportz-Twin Cities since 1993, and is a founding member of HUGE Theater in Uptown Minneapolis. She is the author of Jill Bernard's Small Cute Book of Improv. She has taught and performed improv in Norway, Australia, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Argentina, Bulgaria, Romania, Colombia, Peru, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany and over thirty-five of the United States; and also on an episode of MTV “Made. You can find Jill online at: https://twitter.com...
Bill Binder joins us this week! Bill began performing in Michigan in 1994 where he performed for six years before moving to Phoenix, AZ. Bill helped organize the first Phoenix Improv Festival in 2002, spent two years training at iO West in Los Angeles and was one of the founding members of The Torch Theatre. You can find Bill on: Twitter: @whbinder Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007984294538
This week's episode we welcome Josh Nicols. Josh has been performing improv for 25 years. He co-founded Spectacles Improv Engine, created the Orange County Improv fest and co-founded The Improv Cup, a charity improv tournament in its 7th year. He performs with Ounce of Behavior and Community Theatre 3000. He focuses on organic grounded improv as a student, teacher and performer. You can find Josh on social media at: Twitter @JoshNicols FB: ImprovJosh Website: Spectaclesimprov.com
Michael Jastroch is one of the founders of ColdTowne Theater in Austin Texas, where he's been teaching improv for the last decade. He's taught at festivals all over the country, and he can be seen every Thursday night with his improv group the Frank Mills or heard on his improv and sketch comedy podcast, Victrola. To find Michael on social media: twitter.com/jastroch facebook.com/jastroch instagram.com/jastroch
Jay Sukow will gladly talk endlessly about how much better the world would be if everyone took just one improv class. He has trained with, among others, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Jon Favreau, Keith Johnstone, Del Close and Mick Napier. He is the founder of Today Improv, where he teaches improv to actors, business, and everybody else. He is currently on faculty at The Second City Hollywood and M.i.'s Westside Comedy Theater and has taught and performed at theaters and festivals throughout th...
John Windmueller loves improv. Loves it! John has over a decade of experience teaching and performing, and he has led sold-out workshops at improv festivals and camps across the US. He teaches, coaches, and performs with both the Washington Improv Theater (WIT) and the Baltimore Improv Group (BIG), and he currently performs with mainstage ensembles King Bee (WIT) and Lekker (BIG), along with numerous side projects (Flannel Club, j/k, Local Spot, Remote Possibilities, and Unscripted). John regula...
Paul Vaillancourt joins us as our first guest! We discuss being a teacher in the world of improv! Paul is the co-founder (with Charna Halpern) of the iO West and has been teaching and performing improv for close to 30 years. In that time he has appeared all over the country including such notable venues as HBO’s Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Chicago’s iO (where he studied with the immortal Del Close), New York’s UCB Theater, and Austin's Out of Bounds Festival to name a few. Paul has also had s...
Welcome to Tales from the Teacher's Lounge. A short introduction to Lauren Morris and the podcast. To find out more visit Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram using @improvteachers. Visit the website at www.talesfromtheteachers.com
